Claude now does 26% of Anthropic's own model R&D, up from under 1% in February
altryne · x · 2026-10-16
This week's ThursdAI episode, live from NYC, covers:
- Key stat: Nathan Benaich shared that Claude now contributes to 26% of Anthropic's own model R&D, up from under 1% in February — a striking measure of AI penetration into frontier lab research itself.
- Meta back at the frontier: Muse Wonder hit #2 on Arena, and Meta dropped Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weights model, in the final minutes of the show.
- Google: Gemini 4 Argon launched, with DeepMind's Omar Sanseviero and Geneviève Huskens joining to present it.
- Anthropic posted a $16.8B quarter, plus four other stories and one rumor.
- Theme of the week: AI engineers are sleeping on personal agents — the host shares how his Muse found the studio and got him coffee en route.
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